BSE to automate next year - Mendis

The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) is set to shift from floor trading to automated trading next year, a development that should help oil the highly illiquid bourse.

In an interview with Reuters, the Chief Executive Officer of the BSE, Hiran Mendis, said the bourse should fully automate early next year and improve liquidity levels which have deterred foreign interest.

Mendis said electronic trading should arrive in the first half of 2011, to be followed some time after that by Internet-based trading.

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